Islamic State’s top regional leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed by a US drone strike in a joint US-Afghan military operation in an eastern Afghan province, the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan has claimed.

“I can confirm that ISIS Khurasan leader Hafiz Saeed Khan along with his senior commanders and fighters died in a US drone strike on July 26 in Kot district of Afghanistan’s Nangharhar province,” Afghan Ambassador Omar Zakhilwal said Friday, according to Reuters.

The Islamic State (IS, Daesh, formerly ISIS/ISIL) branch leader was killed along with at least 23 other militant commanders in a US airstrike with support from the Afghan troops on the ground, Major General Mohammad Zaman Wazir said.

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